Muslimgauze
Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and never traveled to the Middle East. His recordings as Muslimgauze, however, qualified him as one of the Western artists most explicitly slanted in favor of the Palestinian liberation movement. Jones could have been a potentially controversial figure if his releases were available in anything except extremely limited editions—usually less than one thousand copies of each title. Despite their lack of prominence, Jones’s blend of found-sound Middle Eastern and South Asian atmospheres with heavily phased drones and colliding rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise and electronica underground. The Muslimgauze project ended tragically in 1999 when Jones died suddenly of a rare blood disease.
Bryn Jones was not a practicing Muslim and never traveled to the Middle East. His recordings as Muslimgauze, however, qualified him as one of the Western artists most explicitly slanted in favor of the Palestinian liberation movement. Jones could have been a potentially controversial figure if his releases were available in anything except extremely limited editions—usually less than one thousand copies of each title. Despite their lack of prominence, Jones’s blend of found-sound Middle Eastern and South Asian atmospheres with heavily phased drones and colliding rhythm programs were among the most startling and unique in the noise and electronica underground. The Muslimgauze project ended tragically in 1999 when Jones died suddenly of a rare blood disease.
Farouk Enjineer
2021 Remastered reissue with new artwork. Originally released in 1997 through Soleilmoon Recordings. This is extremely intense Arabic dub noise music, designed to blow minds and loudspeakers.This is Muslimgauze at their peak! This is one of the absolute best albums Bryn made, superb all around. Amazing high and low tech sounds circling and colliding together, to make one remarkable album. It sounds like you may have sand in your speakers. Unmistakable Gauze!
Veiled Sisters
It's by some strange inversion that since his untimely death in 1999 Bryn Jones' Muslimgauze project has become evermore enigmatic as his publicly available recordings have become evermore vast. The Mancunian artist's sudden passing at the age of 37 prematurely resolved a body of work that remains as experimental as it is diffuse, with an informal archive that was left spread between favoured labels and confidantes. And though this monadic project never abided by genre specifications, it all fee…
Muhammadunize
* Edition of 700 * Recorded and mixed at Abraham Mosque, Manchester 1996, this is a re-release of Muslimlim 009, only C2 taken from stdc 001. Listeners who know much of anything about Bryn Jones’ work as Muslimgauze know that he was prolific in both his work and Muhammadunize, has what could be called a classic feel to it, with a very familiar blend of drones, string instruments, and synths, and varying percussion/break-beat patterns, in turn mixed with a number of hard-to-catch vocal samples…
Chechnya Over Dub
*Limited edition of 300 copies.* Dedicated to an independent Chechnya. On the front cover, there is a Coat of Arms of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria during the first First Chechen War for Independence. 'Chechnya Over Dub' was originally released by Staalplaat as a part of Fatah Guerrilla in 1996.
Shekel Of Israeli Occupation
*Limited edition of 300 copies.* Written, recorded & performed by Muslimgauze, this album was withdrawn by Bryn Jones, and replaced by the "Betrayal" album, in fall 1993. This is the album in its original form, as intended by Jones. The material was recovered from a cassette copy of the album as the original DAT was reused. It has been released on CD in 2019 by Hong-Kong based label Ultra-Mail Prod.
Khan Younis
** 2022 remastered **
- Brilliantly remastered LP/CD with new stunning artwork!- Unique tribal dub-trance music influenced by arabic culture with a touch of post-industrial.- Hypnotic rhythms mixed with with eastern vibes.- Muslimgauze at it's best!- released as picture LP in gimmix cover limited to 500 copies- also available as black vinyl and CD
A1 taken from VA - 110 Below - No Sleeve Notes Required (110 Below, 1995)A2 taken from VA - Assemblage Volume Two (Extreme, 1996)A3 taken from Nonpla…
Uzi
** 2022 repress, with poster ** Muslimgauze's gem from the late 80s. Cinematic, minimal, noisy, hypnotic, and gloomy. Probably not so overtly Middle Eastern as his later works, though definitely bearing an influence. Backed by electric drones percussion forms a living, breathing atmosphere of impending menace. For a strange reason, this album was missed in VOD's Chasing The Shadow Of Bryn Jones 10xLP Box-set. Now you have a chance to complete your Muslimgauze discography! All Tracks Written and …
Amahar
* Much needed repress* First vinyl issue of these raw experimental dub collaborations between Muslimgauze and The Rootsman, written, recorded and mixed at the Third Eye Studio, Bradford, UK between 1997 and 1998. Originally released on CD by Russian label Aquarelist
City of Djinn
One of many Muslimgauzes to finally see the light of day on vinyl, his first meeting with The Rootsman is a fierce session of signature, sawn-off loops and soundsystem noise
Muslimgauze Vs Celtarabia
Limited edition of 300 copies in a 4-panel matte laminated digipak, Celtarabia play a wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats given a radical remix treatment from Muslimgauze.
Untitled
** Edition of 300 copies in digipak **This 'nameless' Muslimgauze album was first published by Klanggalerie in 1996, and in a strange way sends the listener back to 1993, to the albums Betrayal and Veiled Sisters, being their obvious and natural continuation. Slow and soft, like a lump of hashish, either a dub or a lounge with an intoxicating sultry sound it immerses the listener in a light trance... It gives you a feeling as if you are lying down for an afternoon nap somewhere on the outskirts …
Vote Hezbollah
A remastered and expanded edition of the CD originally released by Soleilmoon in 1993.This new edition contains the original album plus a bonus CD that Bryn Jones described as having “different mixes and improved sound, plus unreleased song 'Negev Gulag'”. This second disc is exclusive and previously unreleased.
City of Djinn
Sounds for which Muslimgauze was well known: Dub, Ambient, Drone plus the usual Arabian Tribal sounds collaborating with legendary U.K.Producer The Rootsman.
Trial Mixes 1997-1998
Sounds for which Muslimgauze was well known: Dub, Ambient, Drone plus the usual Arabian Tribal sounds, double CD with beautiful silk screened packaging.
Silknoose
Russian reissue of a long out of print album originally released by Daft Records. Usual great Arabic and Tribal Sounds in the best Musimgauze tradition.
Jackal The Invizible (2LP)
*Edition of 700 * Listeners who know much of anything about Bryn Jones' work as Muslimgauze know that he was prolific in both his work and in the way he sent out his work to labels and other interested parties. Fittingly enough for an artist that feverishly productive and often taciturn to the point of frustration, he didn't tend to give much more information than handwritten track titles on the sleeve of a DAT. Why he would submit multiple copies of the same or similar tracks to those he worked…
Vinyl On Demand Box Sets bundle
This bundle collects the three recent Box Sets released by Vinyl-On-Demand, contents are the following:
- Muslimgauze "Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88" (11 CD Box)- Clock DVA "Clock DVA - Horology - Anthology Vol. 1-3 - " (15 CD Box + T-shirt)- SPK "S.P.K. Dokument - Recordings 1979-1983" (7 CD Box + T-shirt)Muslimgauze "Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88" (11 CD Box)
CD01 Opaque (1983)CD02 Kabul (1983)CD03 Hunting Out With An Aerial Eye / Hammer & Sickle (1983 / 1984)CD04 Buddhis…
Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88
**Epic 11 CD box set, coming as a deluxe book-like folder, compiles the earliest material from Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze dating back to 1983 and up to 1988. It includes a whole raft of mindblowing productions that will surprise and inspire anyone with even just a vague notion of what the sound of Muslimgauze was really all about.** For years, Vinyl-On-Demand has offered a special level of devotion to the legendary solo ventures of the Manchester, UK, based artist Bryn Jones, better known as Mus…
Narcotic
Narcotic is perhaps one example of an album in both camps of the Muslimgauze spectrum, it denotes the expertise acquired in oriental percussion by Bryn Jones after a crescent development and practice through action, part Tribal, part Ambient with shades of texturized noise, glitch details and field recordings, as result the listener is inside this intoxicant atmosphere of exotic madness, where the basic musical premise constituted by the consistent tribal beats from darbukas and tambourines cont…
Islamic Songs
The sun always shines bright, very bright in the Middle East. Windows open up and we hear music. Not the music by Muslimgauze, but traditional music. We hear the Adhan, the call for prayer, the souk and people talking. Music comes from all directions -- rhythmic, mysterious, monotonous perhaps, but swirling like a dervish, round and round it goes. The music of Islam was such an inspiration for Bryn Jones (1961-1999), although perhaps "inspiration" probably doesn't justify the seemingly endless f…